Sonia Afrin, Mohammed Ziaul Haider, Md. Sariful Islam
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on the enhancement of paddy farmers’ technical efficiency (TE). The impact was evaluated rigorously from different dimensions which could be useful in the policy discussion for enhancing efficiency in utilizing pro...
Yuki Maehira, Ezazul Islam Chowdhury, Masud Reza, Ronald Drahozal et al.
BACKGROUND: To determine relapse rates and associated factors among people who use drugs (PWUDs) attending abstinence-oriented drug treatment clinics in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: A cohort of male and female PWUDs admitted to the 3-month drug detoxification-rehabilitation treatment programmes of th...
Sonia Afrin Ale, Md Shafiqul Islam, Hazera Tun-Nessa
Time series econometric methods are frequently used in studies examining how external debt affects economic growth. For the period of 1980-2020, this study creates a panel dataset of five South Asian nations and examines the link between external debt and economic growth. The findings of Cross-secti...
Md. Sariful Islam, Sonia Afrin, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Mohammed Ziaul Haider et al.
Abstract Nonfunctionality of engineered water sources after two catastrophic cyclones—Sidr in November 2007 and Aila in May 2009—created acute scarcity of safe drinking water in coastal Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to estimate households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for disaster resilien...
Fatema Khatun, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Sonia Afrin, Jeroen Warner et al.
Md. Sariful Islam, Ruqaiya Hossain, Md. Manjur Morshed, Sonia Afrin
Pressure of rapid urbanization on abiotic environmental parameters in the residential blocks is one of the major challenges of city corporation authorities in Bangladesh. Environmental degradation often reduces property value in the housing market. However, the studies attempted to assess the value ...
Md. Abdus Sattar Bag, Mohammad Arif, Sonia Riaz, Md. Shahidur Rahman Khan et al.
This study was designed to identify Enterococcus faecalis from clinical mastitis of cattle and determine their antimicrobial resistance and virulence determinants to evaluate their potential public health significance. A total of 105 composite milk samples (80 from cattle with clinical mastitis and ...
Sonia Afrin Ale, Rasheda Akter, Md. Shafiqul Islam
This paper examines the impact of remittance on economic growth. In this study, we utilize the secondary time series data for the span of 1981-2015 in case of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. The study uses Augmented Dickey-fuller (ADF) test to check whether a series suffers from a unit root problem...
Nadira Islam, Md Zillur Rahman, Sadia Choudhury, Lazina Afrin et al.
Dyslipidemia is highly prevalent in the urban and rural areas of Bangladesh but information in the suburban, is limited. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia in sample population who live in the sub-urban area of Bangladesh. Random sampling of the volunteers ag...
Sonia Afrin, Mohammed Ziaul Haider, Md. Sariful Islam
Use of pesticide in agricultural production abates crop damages from pest attack. However, it affects farmers’ health and environmental ecology negatively. Hence, revealing socially optimal level of pesticide use is an essence. We estimate such optimal level by accounting both positive and negative ...
Md. Sariful Islam, Sabiha Ferdousy, Sonia Afrin, Md. Nasif Ahsan et al.
Purpose Recent studies suggest extensive use of environmental resources in agrofarming degrades ecosystem significantly. In this backdrop, this study aims at assessing ecoefficiency of paddy farming. Because ecoefficiency links up between economic performances and environmental resources supporting ...
Nazneen Kabir, Dilruba Akter, Tahmina Afrin Daisy, Sonia Jesmin et al.
Objective(S):This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of carbetocin in comparison to oxytocin in the active management of third stage of labour following vaginal delivery.Methods:A randomized-controlled trial was conducted in the Institute of Child and Mother Health (ICMH), Dhaka...
Md. Sariful Islam, Shamshunnahar Tumpa, Sonia Afrin, Md. Nasif Ahsan et al.
Sonia Zaman, Afrin Jahan, Md. Abdul Latif Mahmud
The aim of this article is to evaluate the job satisfaction of the faculty of private University in Bangladesh. Salary and fringe benefit, opportunity for scholarly pursuit, course load quality students, office and lab facilities, independency about work, professional relationship and interaction wi...
Syed Abdul Kader, Sonia Afrin Rob
Background: Expansion of Dengue fever caused by a mosquito borne arbovirus to new countries and, from urban to rural settings constitutes an important health problem in the world including Bangladesh.
 Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate spread of clinical Dengue to previously non-e...